Cars may be fun, useful and profitable, but except for shiny
exteriors and new smelling interiors, they are not clean. Cars have long put
millions of tons of dirt and bad chemicals into the air and water. This trend
had been led by consumer demand, followed by profiting manufacturers and
government inaction.
POLLUTION
- According to the non-profit International
Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), new
car CO2 emissions are actually 25% higher on average than manufacturers report.
- According to the National Geographic, over half the air pollution in the USA is
caused by transport, mostly automobiles.
car CO2 emissions are actually 25% higher on average than manufacturers report.
- According to the National Geographic, over half the air pollution in the USA is
caused by transport, mostly automobiles.
- It is estimated that of the CO2 emissions
produced over a car's lifespan, 10% come
from its manufacture and 5% from its disposal, with the remaining 85% coming from
fuel use and servicing operations.
from its manufacture and 5% from its disposal, with the remaining 85% coming from
fuel use and servicing operations.
HEALTH EFFECTS
- Researchers at MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation
and the Environment have determined
that annually some 53,000 people die prematurely from road transport in the USA.
By comparison, there were 58,151 casualties in the Vietnam war.
- High levels of car and truck pollution increases hyperactivity (ADHD) in kids according
to work published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
- Moms in highly car polluted areas have smaller babies which is not good for their
health. This is according to The Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives.
- The Stanford School of Medicine says Moms living in the San Joaquin Valley of
California during their early weeks of pregnancy had an elevated risk of having birth
defects in their newborns due to air pollution.
- China has its share of newborns with birth defects. In the highly polluted Shanxi
province, 140 babies out of 10,000 born have had congenital neural tube defects.
The findings are in the Aug 2, 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
that annually some 53,000 people die prematurely from road transport in the USA.
By comparison, there were 58,151 casualties in the Vietnam war.
- High levels of car and truck pollution increases hyperactivity (ADHD) in kids according
to work published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
- Moms in highly car polluted areas have smaller babies which is not good for their
health. This is according to The Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives.
- The Stanford School of Medicine says Moms living in the San Joaquin Valley of
California during their early weeks of pregnancy had an elevated risk of having birth
defects in their newborns due to air pollution.
- China has its share of newborns with birth defects. In the highly polluted Shanxi
province, 140 babies out of 10,000 born have had congenital neural tube defects.
The findings are in the Aug 2, 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
TOYOTA HELPING OUT
Toyota President Akio Toyoda on Tuesday (24.02.2015)
unveiled the assembly line that is making the first mass market fuel-cell car.
The world's biggest carmaker plans
to produce 700 units of the four-door Mirai sedan -- powered by hydrogen and
emitting nothing but water vapour from its tailpipe -- by the end of December.
Production of the car whose name
means "future" in Japanese is scheduled to expand to 2,000 units in
2016 and 3,000 units in 2017.
The Mirai, which is being made at
the firm's Motomachi Plant in Aichi, central Japan, can travel about 650
kilometres (400 miles) without refuelling, some three times further than an
electric car, and its tank can be filled in a few minutes like gasoline engine
vehicles.
"We are thrilled to think that
before everyone else, we are taking a historic step toward the establishment of
a hydrogen society in Japan," Toyoda told reporters last month when he
delivered a Mirai to the prime minister's office.
Fuel-cell technology is seen as the
Holy Grail of green cars as they are powered by a chemical reaction of hydrogen
and oxygen, and produce nothing more harmful than water.
Japanese automakers, including
Toyota's rivals Honda and Nissan, have been leaders in the green car sector.
The country's seven major manufacturers reportedly plan to spend a record $24
billion to research the sector this year.
Source:
http://evsoll.com/Car_pollution_facts.html
http://news.yahoo.com/toyota-unveils-fuel-cell-car-assembly-line-102816747
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